Executive Summary

Summary
Title - VMware Identity Manager and vRealize Automation updates address multiple security issues
Informations
Name VMSA-2016-0013 First vendor Publication 2016-08-23
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2016-08-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

a. VMware Identity Manager local privilege escalation vulnerability

VMware Identity Manager and vRealize Automation both contain a vulnerability that may allow for a local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue may lead to an attacker with access to a low-privileged account to escalate their privileges to that of root.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has reserved the identifier CVE-2016-5335 for this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Product Running Replace with/ VMWare Product Version on Severity Apply Patch Workaround ======================= ======= ======= ========= ============= ========== VMware Identity Manager 2.x VA Important 2.7 None vRealize Automation 7.0.x VA Important 7.1 None vRealize Automation 6.x VA N/A not affected N/A

b. vRealize Automation remote code execution vulnerability

vRealize Automation contains a vulnerability that may allow for remote code execution. Exploitation of this issue may lead to an attacker gaining access to a low-privileged account on the appliance.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has reserved the identifier CVE-2016-5336 for this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Product Running Replace with/

b. vRealize Automation remote code execution vulnerability

vRealize Automation contains a vulnerability that may allow for remote code execution. Exploitation of this issue may lead to an attacker gaining access to a low-privileged account on the appliance.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has reserved the identifier CVE-2016-5336 for this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Product Running Replace with/

Original Source

Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0013.html

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 17

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-08-29 Name : A device management application running on the remote host is affected by mul...
File : vmware_vrealize_automation_VMSA_2016_013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-08-31 21:27:37
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-31 09:25:16
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-30 13:21:28
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-24 05:23:10
  • First insertion